Description: Resilience is a critical facet for effective disaster recovery that could potentially ease the lasting impact that disasters leave on individuals, communities, and economies of impacted regions. It is... More

Description: The collaborative use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) across a temporary project organisation (TPO) may represent the future of construction ... More

Description: Building Information Modeling (BIM) is not a novel concept, but there is a growing interest in design collaboration using BIM for construction management in the AEC industry. Recently, mobile computin... More

Description: The market for sustainable built environment is gaining momentum. There has been substantial research conducted into the design, construction and benefits of sustainable buildings, particularly enviro... More

Description: Traditional reductionist methods of analysis, which breakdown and isolate the component parts will bring the risk of fragmented decision making with potential unforeseen consequences. The Holistic Sus... More

Description: The complexity inherent in construction project environments can lead to emergence of informality and vice versa. This paper suggests that studying informalities in projects could lead to identifying ... More

Description: Most estimators are trained with, and are used to, manual and Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) two dimensional (2D) drawings. The spatio-temporal limitations of these designs complicate infor... More

Description: In the interstitial period in Paris between the fiery collapse of Dada and the official emergence of Breton's Surrealism several years later, the major proponents of the defunct Dada movement immersed... More

Description: Building Information Modelling (BIM) enables intelligent use and management of building information embedded in object-oriented CAD (Computer-aided Design) models. The widespread use of object-oriente... More

Description: This chapter presents a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management (AEC/FM) industry and... More

Description: Historically, the term "cardboard architecture" has had a range of often-pejorative meanings associated with it. In the 1960s it was used to describe various buildings which had facades that resembled... More

Description: This chapter focuses on promoting informal learning through appropriate exhibition curation and design strategies. It provides a model for differentiating between types of learning and suggests approa... More

Description: Construction project performance is vulnerable to process fragmentation and weak frameworks for sustaining objectivity and value integration between stakeholders, including clients, involved in the pr... More

Description: A common argument in recent research is that computer aided manufacturing (CAM), rapid-prototyping (RP) and three-dimensional printing are all changing the future of architectural design in positive w... More